It's great fun to see some of the blog content showing up in other places, such as the latest article from industry magazine CEPro. Check it out HERE!
EXPOSURE: CEPro Shadows
FINDING THE GIFT #8: Light as a Gift
Light became an escape from burnout (or worse) as I approached mid-life, but getting out the door of toxic work environments was only the beginning. I wandered in the proverbial desert for a few years, bouncing from project to project, learning a few hard lessons along the way, and reinvigorating my love for and understanding of architectural... Continue Reading →
DON’T/DO THIS: Home Office
Most of my blog posts are written at the sit/stand desk in my office from home, a desk that also serves as my main place of work, day after day. Our company began moving towards remote work before the pandemic and never looked back, which means home offices and their lighting are pretty important to... Continue Reading →
EXPOSURE: designing lighting Can Help Us
And we're back! It is an honor to be included once again in designing lighting magazine. In this issue, I begin a series inviting lighting professionals to change the way they talk to clients about light and parallel my ongoing Light Can Help Us series. Check it out!
Light Can Help Us #10: Feel Better Part 2
“Using CCT as a proxy for the biological potency of light cannot be justified.” Â-Esposito, T., Houser, K. Click HERE for full article. A few weeks ago I revisited the promise that light can help us feel better and drew parallels between taste and sight. Food, when prepared creatively, can deliver momentary pleasure on our tastebuds but it takes... Continue Reading →
Finding the Gift #7: Light as a Community
Thanks for your patience as I have been slower than usual to post in August! An intense week-long training event followed by a family vacation has taken me offline for a large part of the month, and it feels good to be back here again. I get a little uncomfortable around mistakes, especially my own.... Continue Reading →
DON’T/DO THIS: Backyards
July seems like the perfect month to write a blog post about landscape lighting in a back yard. Our days are long and our evenings warm in Wisconsin right now, and we enjoy relaxing outdoors as long as the mosquitoes will let us. A little well-planned light will extend our evenings a bit longer as... Continue Reading →
Light Can Help Us #9: Feel Better
Light for our bodies can help us feel better, and this may be the most important promise of them all. Throughout human history, discovery and invention have joined together to deliver turning points of epic proportions, moments at which all of humanity advanced into new eras. We discovered countless galaxies and nebulae and expanded our... Continue Reading →
EXPOSURE: FHB ProTalk Podcast
A guest appearance on a podcast is always a bit unknown. Will the host ask questions that I struggle to answer? Will the conversation flow in strange directions? Will I enjoy it or be counting the minutes until it is over? All my fears were allayed on this recent episode of Fine Homebuilding ProTalk Podcast... Continue Reading →
Finding the Gift #6: Light as an Escape
My journey towards the light was not always easy or straight, and a chaotic turning point grew increasingly likely as I pushed towards my fortieth birthday. I spent the entirety of my 30’s (and change) split between the worlds of university teaching and freelance designing, periodically shifting the balance from one to the other as... Continue Reading →
the language of light 